Canada

Nickname(s)	Team Canada (Équipe Canada)
Association	Hockey Canada
General Manager	Sean Burke
Head coach	Bill Peters
Assistants	Bob Boughner Mike Yeo
Captain	Sidney Crosby
Most games	Brad Schlegel (304)
Top scorer	Brad Schlegel
Most points	Cliff Ronning (156)
Team colours	Red, black, white[1]
IIHF code	CAN
Ranking
Current IIHF	1 (21 May 2018)[2]
Highest IIHF	1 (first in 2003)
Lowest IIHF	5 (first in 2012)
First international
Canada 8–1 Switzerland   (Les Avants, Switzerland; January 10, 1910)
Biggest win
Canada 47–0 Denmark  (Stockholm, Sweden; February 12, 1949)
Biggest defeat
Soviet Union 11–1 Canada  (Vienna, Austria; April 24, 1977)
IIHF World Championships
Appearances	71 (first in 1920)
Best result	Gold: (1920, 1924, 1928, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1955, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1994, 1997, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2015, 2016)
World Cup / Canada Cup
Appearances	8 (first in 1976)
Best result	Winner: (1976, 1984, 1987, 1991, 2004, 2016)
Olympics
Appearances	22 (first in 1920)
Medals	Gold: (1920, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1948, 1952, 2002, 2010, 2014) Silver: (1936, 1960, 1992, 1994) Bronze: (1956, 1968, 2018)

Canada men's national ice hockey team

Medal record
Olympic Games
	1920 Antwerp	Team
	1924 Chamonix	Team
	1928 St. Moritz	Team
	1932 Lake Placid	Team
	1948 St. Moritz	Team
	1952 Oslo	Team
	2002 Salt Lake City	Team
	2010 Vancouver	Team
	2014 Sochi	Team
	1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Team
	1960 Squaw Valley	Team
	1992 Albertville	Team
	1994 Lillehammer	Team
	1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo	Team
	1968 Grenoble	Team
	2018 Pyeongchang	Team
World Championships
	1920 Antwerp	Team
	1924 Chamonix	Team
	1928 St. Moritz	Team
	1930 Austria/France/Germany
	1931 Poland
	1932 Lake Placid	Team
	1934 Italy
	1935 Switzerland
	1937 Great Britain
	1938 Czechoslovakia
	1939 Switzerland
	1948 St. Moritz	Team
	1950 Great Britain
	1951 France
	1952 Oslo	Team
	1955 West Germany
	1958 Norway
	1959 Czechoslovakia
	1961 Switzerland
	1994 Italy
	1997 Finland
	2003 Finland
	2004 Czech Republic
	2007 Russia
	2015 Czech Republic
	2016 Russia
	1933 Czechoslovakia
	1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Team
	1949 Sweden
	1954 Sweden
	1960 Squaw Valley	Team
	1962 United States
	1985 Czechoslovakia
	1989 Sweden
	1991 Finland
	1996 Austria
	2005 Austria
	2008 Canada
	2009 Switzerland
	2017 Germany/France
	1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo	Team
	1966 Yugoslavia
	1967 Austria
	1978 Czechoslovakia
	1982 Finland
	1983 West Germany
	1986 Soviet Union
	1995 Sweden
Winter Universiade
	1981 Jaca
	1991 Sapporo
	2007 Turin	Team
	2013 Trentino	Team
	1972 Lake Placid
	2001 Zakopane
	2009 Harbin
	1968 Innsbruck
	1987 Štrbské Pleso
	1997 Muju-Jeonju
	1999 Poprad-Tatry
	2003 Tarvisio
	2011 Erzurum

The Canadian national men's ice hockey team (popularly known as Team Canada; French: Équipe Canada) is the ice hockey team representing Canada internationally. The team is overseen by Hockey Canada, a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation. From 1920 until 1963, Canada's international representation was by senior amateur club teams. Canada's national men's team was founded in 1963 by Father David Bauer as a part of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, playing out of the University of British Columbia.^[4]
The nickname "Team Canada" was first used for the 1972 Summit Series and has been frequently used to refer to the Canadian national team ever since.

Canada is the leading national ice hockey team in international play, winners of the 1972 Summit Series against the Soviet Union, four of five Canada Cups dating back to 1976, nine Olympic gold medals (the most in the world), including three of the last five: Salt Lake City 2002, Vancouver 2010, and Sochi 2014. They are 26-time IIHF World Champions and winner of the 2004 and 2016 World Cup of Hockey. Canada is a member of the so-called "Big Six", the unofficial group of the six strongest men's ice hockey nations, along with the Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Sweden and the United States.^[5]

History[edit]

Hockey is Canada's national winter sport, and Canadians are extremely passionate about the game. Canada was first represented internationally at the 1910 European Championships by the Oxford Canadians, a team of Canadians from the University of Oxford. They represented Canada again at the 1912 World Championships.

From 1920 until 1963, the senior amateur club teams representing Canada, were usually the most recent Allan Cup champions. The last amateur club team from Canada to win a gold medal at the World Championship was the Trail Smoke Eaters in 1961. Following the 1963 World Championships, Father David Bauer founded the national team as a permanent institution. The new permanent national team first competed at the 1964 Winter Olympics.

Before the Soviet Union began international competition in 1954, Canada dominated international hockey, winning six out of seven golds at the Olympics and 10 World Championship gold medals. Canada then went 50 years without winning the Winter Olympic Gold medal and from 1962 to 1993, didn't win any World Championships. This was in part because Canada's best professional players were unable to attend these events as they had commitments with their National Hockey League teams.

Canada withdrew from official IIHF events in 1970 and the National Team program was suspended after they were refused permission to use semi-professional players at the World Championship. Canada returned to the IIHF in 1977 after a series of negotiations between IIHF President Dr. Sabetzki and top officials of professional ice hockey in Canada and the United States. As a result, professionals are allowed to compete at the World Championship and the tournament is scheduled later in the year to ensure more players are available from among the NHL teams eliminated from the Stanley Cup playoffs. In return, a competition for the "Canada Cup" was to be played every four years on North American territory with the participation of Canada, the United States, and the four strongest European national teams, including professionals.^{[citation needed]}

In 1983, Hockey Canada began the "Program of Excellence", whose purpose was to prepare a team for the Winter Olympics every four years. This new National Team played a full season together all over the world against both national and club teams, and often attracted top NHL prospects. In 1986, the International Olympic Committee voted to allow professional athletes to compete in Olympic Games, starting in 1988.^[6] Veteran pros with NHL experience and, in a few cases, current NHLers who were holding out in contract disputes joined the team. This program was discontinued in 1998, when the NHL began shutting down to allow its players to compete.

After not winning a gold medal for 33 years, Canada won the 1994 World Championship in Italy. Since that time, they have won in 1997, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2015 and 2016. Canada captured its first Olympic gold medal in 50 years at Salt Lake City 2002. At Vancouver 2010, Canada won the gold medal with a 3–2 win against the United States in the final. Sidney Crosby's overtime goal secured Canada the final gold medal awarded at the Games.^[7] At the 2012 World Championship in Finland and Sweden, Ryan Murray became the first draft eligible prospect to represent Canada at the Ice Hockey World Championship.

Canada successfully defended gold at Sochi 2014, becoming the first men's team to do so since the Soviet Union in 1988, the first to finish the tournament undefeated since 1984 and the first to do both with a full NHL participation. Their relentless offensive pressure and stifling defence has earned the 2014 squad praise as perhaps the best, most complete Team Canada ever assembled.^[8]Drew Doughty and Shea Weber led the team in scoring, while Jonathan Toews scored the gold medal-winning goal in the first period of a 3–0 win over Sweden in the final. The architect behind the 2010 and 2014 teams, Steve Yzerman, immediately stepped down as general manager following the win.^[9]

Led by general manager Jim Nill, head coach Todd McLellan, and the late addition of captain Sidney Crosby, Canada won the 2015 IIHF World Championship in dominating fashion over Russia, their first win at the Worlds since 2007. By winning all 10 of their games in regulation, Hockey Canada was awarded a 1 million Swiss franc bonus prize in the first year of its existence.^[10] Canada scored 66 goals in their 10 games and had the top three scorers of the tournament: Jason Spezza, Jordan Eberle and Taylor Hall. Tyler Seguin also led the championship with nine goals. The win secured Canada's return to number one on the IIHF world rankings for the first time since 2010.^[11]

List of teams representing Canada from 1920 to 1963[edit]

Competition achievements[edit]

Olympic Games[edit]

All Olympic ice hockey tournaments between 1920 and 1968 also counted as World Championships. They have won a total of 15 Olympic medals.^[12]

Games	Representative	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Coach	Manager/GM	Captain	Finish	Ref.
1920 Antwerp	Winnipeg Falcons	3	3	0	0	21	1	Gordon Sigurjonson	H. A. Axford	Frank Fredrickson	Gold	[13]
1924 Chamonix	Toronto Granites	5	5	0	0	110	3	Frank Rankin	William Hewitt	Dunc Munro	Gold	[14]
1928 St. Moritz	University of Toronto Grads	3	3	0	0	38	0	Conn Smythe	William Hewitt	John Porter	Gold	[15]
1932 Lake Placid	Winnipeg Hockey Club	6	5	0	1	32	4	Jack Hughes	Lou Marsh	William Cockburn	Gold	[16]
1936 Garmisch- Partenkirchen	Port Arthur Bearcats	8	7	1	0	54	7	Al Pudas	Malcolm Cochrane	Herman Murray	Silver	[17]
1948 St. Moritz	Ottawa RCAF Flyers	8	7	0	1	69	5	Frank Boucher	Sandy Watson	George Mara	Gold	[18]
1952 Oslo	Edmonton Mercurys	8	7	0	1	71	14	Lou Holmes	Jim Christianson	Billy Dawe	Gold	[19]
1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo	Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen	8	6	2	0	53	12	Bobby Bauer	Ernie Goman	Jack McKenzie	Bronze	[20]
1960 Squaw Valley	Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen	7	6	1	0	55	15	Bobby Bauer	Ernie Goman	Harry Sinden	Silver	[21]
1964 Innsbruck	—	7	5	2	0	32	17	David Bauer	Bob Hindmarch	Hank Akervall	4th	[22]
1968 Grenoble	—	7	5	2	0	28	15	Jackie McLeod	David Bauer	Marshall Johnston	Bronze	[23]
1972 Sapporo	Did not participate
1976 Innsbruck	Did not participate
1980 Lake Placid	—	6	3	3	0	29	18	Lorne Davis Clare Drake Tom Watt	Rick Noonan	Randy Gregg	6th	[24]
1984 Sarajevo	—	7	4	3	0	24	16	Dave King	Dave King	Dave Tippett	4th	[25]
1988 Calgary	—	8	5	2	1	31	21	Dave King	Dave King	Trent Yawney	4th	[26]
1992 Albertville	—	8	6	2	0	37	17	Dave King	Dave King	Brad Schlegel	Silver	[27]
1994 Lillehammer	—	8	5	2	1	27	19	Tom Renney	George Kingston	Fabian Joseph	Silver	[28]
1998 Nagano	—	6	4	2	0	19	8	Marc Crawford	Bobby Clarke	Eric Lindros[29]	4th	[30]
2002 Salt Lake City	—	6	4	1	1	22	14	Pat Quinn	Wayne Gretzky	Mario Lemieux	Gold
2006 Turin	—	6	3	3	0	15	11	Pat Quinn	Wayne Gretzky	Joe Sakic	7th
2010 Vancouver	—	7	6	1	—	32	14	Mike Babcock	Steve Yzerman	Scott Niedermayer	Gold	[31]
2014 Sochi	—	6	6	0	—	17	3	Mike Babcock	Steve Yzerman	Sidney Crosby	Gold
2018 Pyeongchang	—	6	4	2	—	21	12	Willie Desjardins	Sean Burke	Chris Kelly	Bronze

World Championships[edit]

All Olympic ice hockey tournaments between 1920 and 1968 also counted as World Championships.^[12] World Championships were not held during the Winter Olympic years of 1980, 1984 or 1988.^[12]

Summit Series[edit]

• 
  1972  – Won
  


• 
  1974  – Lost

Canada Cup[edit]

• 
  1976 – Champions
  


• 
  1981 – Runners-up


• 
  1984 – Champions
  


• 
  1987 – Champions
  


• 
  1991 – Champions
  

World Cup of Hockey[edit]

• 
  1996 – Runners-up


• 
  2004 – Champions
  


• 
  2016 – Champions
  

Spengler Cup[edit]

In the Spengler Cup, Team Canada competes against European club teams such as HC Davos who host the tournament every year in Vaillant Arena. Canada was initially represented by the standing national team at this event, but subsequently is usually made up of Canadians playing in European leagues or the AHL. Team Canada has won a total of 15 Spengler Cups, which is tied with the host team HC Davos for the most titles.

Team[edit]

Current roster[edit]

Roster for the 2018 IIHF World Championship.^[32][33]

Head coach: Bill Peters

No.	Pos.	Name	Height	Weight	Birthdate	Team
1	G	Michael DiPietro	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)	7001910000000000000♠91 kg (201 lb)	(1999-09-06) September 6, 1999 (age 19)	Ottawa 67's
3	D	Joel Edmundson	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)	7001980000000000000♠98 kg (216 lb)	(1993-06-28) June 28, 1993 (age 25)	St. Louis Blues
5	D	Aaron Ekblad	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)	7001980000000000000♠98 kg (216 lb)	(1996-02-07) February 7, 1996 (age 23)	Florida Panthers
6	D	Ryan Pulock	1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)	7001980000000000000♠98 kg (216 lb)	(1994-10-06) October 6, 1994 (age 24)	New York Islanders
7	F	Jordan Eberle	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)	7001850000000000000♠85 kg (187 lb)	(1990-05-15) May 15, 1990 (age 28)	New York Islanders
8	F	Kyle Turris	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)	7001860000000000000♠86 kg (190 lb)	(1989-08-14)August 14, 1989 (aged 28)	Nashville Predators
10	F	Brayden Schenn – A	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)	7001860000000000000♠86 kg (190 lb)	(1991-08-22) August 22, 1991 (age 27)	St. Louis Blues
11	F	Jean-Gabriel Pageau	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)	7001840000000000000♠84 kg (185 lb)	(1992-11-11) November 11, 1992 (age 26)	Ottawa Senators
12	F	Josh Bailey	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)	7001920000000000000♠92 kg (203 lb)	(1989-10-02) October 2, 1989 (age 29)	New York Islanders
13	F	Mathew Barzal	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)	7001860000000000000♠86 kg (190 lb)	(1997-05-26) May 26, 1997 (age 21)	New York Islanders
17	F	Jaden Schwartz	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)	7001870000000000000♠87 kg (192 lb)	(1992-06-25) June 25, 1992 (age 26)	St. Louis Blues
18	F	Pierre-Luc Dubois	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)	7001940000000000000♠94 kg (207 lb)	(1998-06-24) June 24, 1998 (age 20)	Columbus Blue Jackets
21	F	Tyson Jost	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	7001860000000000000♠86 kg (190 lb)	(1998-03-17) March 17, 1998 (age 21)	Colorado Avalanche
25	D	Darnell Nurse	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)	7002101000000000000♠101 kg (223 lb)	(1995-02-04) February 4, 1995 (age 24)	Edmonton Oilers
27	D	Ryan Murray	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)	7001930000000000000♠93 kg (205 lb)	(1993-09-27) September 27, 1993 (age 25)	Columbus Blue Jackets
30	G	Curtis McElhinney	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)	7001910000000000000♠91 kg (201 lb)	(1983-05-23) May 23, 1983 (age 35)	Carolina Hurricanes
35	G	Darcy Kuemper	1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)	7001970000000000000♠97 kg (214 lb)	(1990-05-05) May 5, 1990 (age 28)	Arizona Coyotes
44	D	Marc-Édouard Vlasic	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)	7001930000000000000♠93 kg (205 lb)	(1987-03-30) March 30, 1987 (age 32)	San Jose Sharks
52	D	Thomas Chabot	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)	7001860000000000000♠86 kg (190 lb)	(1997-01-30) January 30, 1997 (age 22)	Ottawa Senators
53	F	Bo Horvat	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)	7002101000000000000♠101 kg (223 lb)	(1995-05-04) May 4, 1995 (age 23)	Vancouver Canucks
55	D	Colton Parayko	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)	7001970000000000000♠97 kg (214 lb)	(1993-05-12) May 12, 1993 (age 25)	St. Louis Blues
72	F	Anthony Beauvillier	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)	7001810000000000000♠81 kg (179 lb)	(1997-06-08) June 8, 1997 (age 21)	New York Islanders
90	F	Ryan O'Reilly – A	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)	7001960000000000000♠96 kg (212 lb)	(1991-02-07) February 7, 1991 (age 28)	St. Louis Blues[34]
93	F	Ryan Nugent-Hopkins	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)	7001840000000000000♠84 kg (185 lb)	(1993-04-12) April 12, 1993 (age 25)	Edmonton Oilers
97	F	Connor McDavid – C	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)	7001850000000000000♠85 kg (187 lb)	(1997-01-13) January 13, 1997 (age 22)	Edmonton Oilers

Coaches[edit]

List of coaches of the Canada men's national ice hockey team.

Olympics

Summit Series, Canada Cup, World Cup

World Championships

See also[edit]

• Canada men's national junior ice hockey team


• Canada men's national ice sledge hockey team


• List of Canadian national ice hockey team rosters


• Canada men's national field hockey team


• List of IIHF World Under-20 Championship players for Canada

References[edit]

• 
  Podnieks, Andrew (1997). Canada's Olympic Hockey Teams: The Complete History, 1920–1998. Toronto: Doubleday Canada. ISBN 0-385-25688-4.
  


• 
  Wallechinsky, David (2002). The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics (2002 ed.). New York: The Overlook Press. ISBN 1-58567-185-1.
  


• Meltzer, Bill NHL.com article on 2007 IIHF World Championship gold medal. Retrieved 2008-03-25.

External links[edit]

• Official website


• IIHF profile